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Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary
About Zsófia Dénes
- Zsófia Józsefné Szalatnyay Dénes (14 January 1885 – 22 January 1987) was a Hungarian writer.She was born in Budapest.
- During the 1910s, Dénes was Paris correspondent for the Hungarian magazines Pesti Napló and Világ; she reported on the premieres of ballets composed by Igor Stravinsky and performed by Vaslav Nijinsky.
- She moved to Vienna in 1919 after the fall of the Hungarian Soviet Republic.
- Dénes worked for a Hungarian language newspaper there until 1925.
- She then returned to Budapest, where she worked as a journalist and also lobbied for women's rights and for pacifism.She was briefly engaged to the Hungarian poet Endre Ady and published a memoir on his life Élet helyett órák (Hours instead of life) in 1935.
- In 1957, she published Akkor a hársak épp szerettek (At that time the linden trees were loving) which also dealt with their relationship.
- In 1976, she established the Ady Prize in his honour.Dénes wrote the first Hungarian biography of Vladimir Lenin.
- She knew prominent figures of her time such as Sigmund Freud and poet Rainer Maria Rilke.In 1985, she published Ami a százból kimaradt (What has been left out from a hundred).
- At the time, she was considered the oldest author in Hungary.She died in Budapest at the age of 102.
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